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The Rutles
(1978) [G]

Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success. A parody of Beatlemania and the...  More

Porridge: Series 1
(1974) [PG]

'Porridge’ is slang for a jail sentence, and habitual offender Norman Stanley Fletcher (Barker) is doing five years. Six episodes of cynicism, self-preservation and bare-faced cheek as Fletcher takes on the Slade prision system. New Faces, Old Hands "Twenty-three and you want to go...  More

Young Frankenstein
(1974) [PG]

Neurosurgeon Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder), inherits a castle from his grandfather Baron Von Frankenstein - the notoriously experimental German nobleman. On travelling to the ancestral pile he discovers his grandad's scientific papers and decides to recreate his 'shocking' experiments...  More

The Three Stooges: Volume One
(1936) [PG]

Three Stooges' 2 reeler comedies: A Ducking They Did Go, G.I. Wanna Home, Back from the Front, A Gem of a Jam, Three Dumb Clucks, Dizzy Doctors, No Census No Feeling, Three Little Sew and Sews, Cuckoo Cavaliers, So Long Mr Chumps, From Nurse to Worse, The Sitter Downers.  More

Monty Python: And Now For Something Completely Different
(1971) [PG]

England was such a proper place - until the day the Python arrived. Monty Python, that is, a Flying Circus that slithered up the funnybone of an entire nation and gave it fits of laughter. Here's Monty Python's first feature film - a hilarious collection of their very best twits, skits and bits...  More

Open All Hours : Series 1, Disc 1
(1976) [PG]

Ronnie Barker stars as Arkwright, the stuttering grocer, in the first series of this cornershop comedy. Arkwright's urge to take money from his customers by fair means or foul is second only to his need to prevent Granville, his nephew, from discovering a world beyond the clang of the shop...  More

The Titfield Thunderbolt
(1952) [G]

Director Charles Crichton and writer Tibby Clarke teamed up again for the first Ealing comedy to be produced in Technicolor. When an antiquated railway line is threatened with closure, the villagers decide to run it themselves and enter into frenzied competition with the local bus route, with...  More

Billy Liar
(1963) [PG]

Tom Courtenay stars as Billy Fisher, an ambitious but ultimately lazy young man with a dreary life who spends most of his time daydreaming about a land where he is a hero. A number of minor indiscretions causes Billy to lie in order to avoid the penalties. As these events start catching up with...  More

Hobson's Choice
(1954) [G]

The brilliant, touching and delightful working-class comedy from David Lean, Oscar nominated Director of 'Doctor Zhivago' (1965) and 'A Passage To India' (1984). Charles Laughton is the drunken tyrannical Lancashire Bootmaker brought to heel by his tough eldest daughter and her simple-minded...  More

Murder Most Foul
(1964) [G]

After hearing all the evidence as a juror at the trial of a man charged with a murder set within a theatrical troupe, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) is not convinced that the police have got the killer. As the only member of a jury who has faith in the defendant's innocence, she joins the...  More